That will help you get to know just a little bit extra about Alexandra and her new position, we sat down together with her to ask just a few questions:
1. When did you first turn out to be concerned in sustainability and why is it so essential to you?
I grew to become concerned in sustainability on the age of 14, when my mates and I created a small NGO working in the direction of poverty alleviation in Romania. We have been dwelling in a really small city and there was a partnership between our city and one other village in Japanese Romania, subsequently we had determined to accomplice with native youths to arrange initiatives comparable to cleansing the native river, funding scholarships and serving to the implementation of a homestay / small lodging established as a Group Based mostly Tourism challenge. In the course of the college yr yearly, we organized fundraisers, utilized for grants and located personal sponsors. Each summer season we travelled to Romania by automobile from France with a paid driver since we have been nonetheless too younger to drive and arrange these initiatives with our mates. It was thrilling to make mates and assist the neighborhood whereas travelling by way of Europe. It was then that I made a decision that working to enhance lives was what I needed to do in life; working in native growth and in the direction of sustainability. Since then, my skilled experiences have all the time led me to find new fascinating fields of works comparable to microfinance, truthful commerce, social innovation, accountable tourism and extra. Main initiatives that defend the planet and profit folks permits me to really reside the motto ‘Do what you’re keen on, love what you do’.
2. How can travellers profit from the sustainable journey motion?
Vacationers more and more contemplate the environmental and social impacts of their travels, they’re conscientious that the alternatives they make whereas touring have an effect on the vacation spot and I imagine they’re desirous to study extra about how they’ll make higher decisions to tread flippantly. Touring responsibly permits them to cut back their carbon footprint, to assist locals enhance their livelihoods and to contribute to defending pure assets.
3. What in your thoughts is the chief position of a CPO and what do you most sit up for with this accountability?
A Chief Objective Officer seems to be to make sure that the aim of the corporate – why we exist – is demonstrated all through our group throughout our methods, branding and tradition, in addition to in our exterior relationships and communications. Our function is what drives our values, our capabilities to take-risks, and helps us to outline how to reply to others in each a enterprise and societal context.The CPO’s position is to bridge the hole between management intention and guarantee motion takes place all through the group to help this imaginative and prescient. In a nutshell, our function and values should be included into what we promote, how we work, and the way we deal with the folks each inside and out of doors of EXO.
I sit up for working with the groups in all our locations, so that individuals working for EXO perceive how you can bond their day-to-day to our function and values and to make sure that their compensation is tied to their efficiency in opposition to these priorities.
4. What are some key targets for us sooner or later?
We’re working in the direction of B-Corp certification as a result of we imagine it should assist us to reset our core mission and values to build-back-better than earlier than. We additionally purpose to proceed main local weather motion to cut back the environmental footprint of our enterprise in our locations, and create constructive alternatives for communities to learn from tourism, in addition to enriching workplaces the place folks working for EXO have a transparent sense of function and perceive the constructive impression of their work.
5. What position do folks have in guaranteeing targets are met
As a part of my position, I sit up for guaranteeing that targets are clearly outlined for every particular person working at EXO and that we develop a constructive working tradition the place EXO folks can study and thrive and have the chance to do nice work they are often happy with.
